SRC-AMY H.B. 3052 78(R)   BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research Center   H.B. 3052
By: Hunter (Wentworth)
Infrastructure Development and Security
5/21/2003
Engrossed


DIGEST AND PURPOSE 

Citizens have reported instances in which private lighted directional
signals imitate official traffic enforcement signals and confuse drivers.
H.B. 3052 prohibits a person from placing, maintaining, or displaying on
or in view of a highway an unauthorized sign, signal, marking, or device
that displays a green, red, or yellow light in a moving directional
pattern, except for signs marking railroad crossings. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to
a state officer, institution, or agency. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.  Amends Section 544.006(a), Transportation Code, to prohibit a
person from placing, maintaining, or displaying on or in view of a highway
an unauthorized sign, signal, marking, or device that displays a green,
red, or yellow light in a moving directional pattern, except for signs
marking railroad crossings, or other actions.  Makes a nonsubstantive
change. 

SECTION 2.  Effective date:  September 1, 2003.